An unproductive week

I don't know what it is with my back, but I've been having quite a few problems with it lately. I've never had back problems before, so this is strange. On Saturday morning I was busy at the kitchen sink, bent over slightly to turn on the garbage disposal & felt the shockwave across my lower back. I couldn't move for a few minutes and didn't know what it was. I finally managed to get to my phone to call DH to come in from the shop. He said it's muscle spasms. What the heck? He's had it before, but not me. I ended up spending the weekend in bed, I could hardly move. I still move slower than usual, but finally started feeling better. By yesterday, I woke up feeling great. Then by the evening, my thigh was in pain. So back to feeling crap again. I had this grand plan to just stay home all week & list, but that didn't happen. Best laid plans....

Monday I decided to run all my errands, so that it's out of the way. 

• Went to the produce market and came home with a box of apples. Mind you, I nearly dropped that huge box of apples, picking it up from the shelf. I never learn...lol. I made some applesauce and we've been eating fresh apples every day too. I'm gonna have to bake some more apple muffins.

• Picked up the Ibotta Thanksgiving freebies at Walmart and ended up having enough points to redeem for a $25 Walmart gc. I will use the gc to get our pumpkin pies and yogurt at Sams. I've never made corn muffins, so wish me luck.

• Picked up more Christmas cards at DT and mailed them. 

• Loft sent me another $25 Q. Boy, they must really miss me, because they've given me $60 total in the course of one month. It was only good for this week & I, once again, decided to wait & see if they'll do a free shipping day. For Veteran's Day they had extra 50% + 11% off all clearance & free shipping. Count me in!! I bought 3 shorts and a jeans. Spent $6.76 OOP. I didn't want to spend any cash, but it turns out that you can't use the reward if your total is under $25. At first I added a pair of socks to get over $25. Then I changed my mind because I really don't need any more socks. I still have enough socks to last me 2-3 years.  I opted for another shorts instead of wasting cash on socks. 

• I still had a WHBM birthday gift, which I used to buy a pair of jeans. I actually bought 2 pairs and paid for the rest with a gc. I now only have $2 left on those gcs I got for my birthday & Christmas last year. I think I had about $820 gc total (birthday, Christmas, Valentines or Mother's day). That lasted so long and I bought a ton of stuff. I filled half a closet (about a 2 meter wide closet) with all my purchases (clothes, shoes, purses, jewelry). I have a friend who told me that she once spent $1K on clothes at just one store. I couldn't believe it! She was a couponer too. We used to coupon together. Here it takes me a year to spend less than that & I'm more of a fashionista than she is.

Kroger saw me a few times this week. They had the 97c/18 ct eggs again, so I went and bought the limit. I had a few things on my list, but they didn't have any stock when I went the first time

Trans 1

5 x 18ct Eggs $4.85

Less KC (1.00)

OOP $3.85

Earned 20c Ibotta (10c receipt, 10c eggs)

Trans 2

4 x Thomas english muffins BOGOF $6.58

2 x Oscar Mayer Smokies 4.00

Less Free OM mailer Q (2.00)

OOP $8.58

Earned $5.10 Ibotta ($5 Thomas, 10c receipt) + $1.50 KC (Thomas)

Trans 3

3 x 12pk soda $12.00

Bottle deposit 3.60

Less KC (1.50)

OOP $14.10

Total OOP at Kroger : $26.53

Total earned : $6.80

Yep, it was a good week at Kroger. We were completely out of soda and I've been waiting for a good sale. I didn't care which store had the sale. I just wanted some cheap soda.

The week was even better, cause guess what.... WAGS actually worked slick as snot. The WAGS stars must have aligned...lol I wasn't planning a WAGS trip, but figured I'd make a pit stop since I was already out. 

Trans 1 (DH account)

2 x Tresemme $10.00

2 x Colgate t/p 7.98

1 x Bic razor 5.99

Less Tresemme DQ (5.00)

Less Colgate DQ (2.00)

Less Bic DQ (5.00)

Less WC points (10.00)

Tax 1.44

OOP $3.41

Earned $5 RR (Tresemme), $4 WC (Colgate)

Trans 2 (my account)

2 x Tresemme $10.00

2 x Crest t/p 8.00

1 x Bic razor 5.99

Less Tresemme DQ (5.00)

Less Crest DQ (3.00)

Less Bic DQ (5.00)

Less WC points (10.00)

Tax 1.44

OOP $2.43

Earned $5 RR (Tresemme), $5 RR  (Crest) $3 WC (WYS $12)

Submitted Crest receipt to PG.

My transaction turned out even better than expected (a small MM). I forgot that I had a $3 Spend DQ. I wanted to do a little happy dance. I don't know what was in the WAGS water, but I'm not complaining. 

I didn't do the Crest deal on DH's account, because I deleted the $3/2 Q last week. I had both the $3/2 and $5/3 clipped last week and I knew that it would apply the lowest Q first. So I deleted that Q (you can't unclip their Qs) so that the register would accept the $5/3 Q instead. So I just bought Colgate instead and still got a decent deal. 

Now I'm stuck with $24 RRs that needs to be used in the next 2 weeks. I also have so many other rewards, I need to make a list to keep track of everything. Stores just keep sending me Qs wanting me to come shop. I'm just waiting on free shipping days, otherwise I'll ignore their Qs. Easy peasy. It's not like I want to spend my own money. 

I did no CVS shopping this week. I haven't even looked at the ad. 

Have a great weekend everyone!